Kavanaugh Brings His Voter Suppression Record To A Court That Just Upheld A State’s ID Law

Newly minted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s approval of voter suppression laws was not needed in a high court ruling on Tuesday which allowed a state to enforce its voter ID requirement for the 2018 elections.

The court declined to overrule an appeals court order that permitted North Dakota to require government ID at the polls, The Hill reported. A group of Native Americans had challenged the ID requirement.

Looking ahead, Kavanaugh brings a record on voter suppression cases that makes the court even less sympathetic to the concerns of people of color. Indeed, during his confirmation process, People for the American Way, a progressive advocacy group, warned that Kavanaugh “will threaten hard-won protections for the right to vote.”

“The question is not whether Justice Kavanaugh will move the court in a more conservative and hostile direction on constitutional and civil rights, but instead how swiftly he will do so and how sweeping will the court’s rulings be,” Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement to NewsOne.

The Native American group argued that the ID law disproportionately affected their population because a significant number of Native Americans live on reservations without standard address required to obtain the IDs.

Kavanaugh wrote an opinion for a three-judge panel upholding a South Carolina voter ID law that was objected to by the U.S. Department of Justice because of the significant racial disparities in the law’s photo ID requirement, the Leadership Conference explained. The ruling affected approximately 60,000 nonwhite voters who were previously registered.

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These Hysterical Brett Kavanaugh Memes Will Haunt Him On The Supreme Court

Judge Brett Kavanaugh is officially a Supreme Court justice. The journey has been arduous and social media has had a field day along the way. But what else can you do? We have to laugh to keep from crying.
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In case you missed it, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford claimed Kavanaugh assaulted her in the summer of 1982 when she was 15 and he was 17. Ford said that while at a party, Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, locked her in a bedroom, "got on top" of her, covered her mouth and was "grinding his hips" on her. She said she escape and never mentioned the alleged assault to anyone until her therapist in 2012. She then came forward privately to Sen. Dianne Feinstein before the story was leaked to the press. Kavanaugh denied every claim, including having a drinking problem and, of course, Republicans did their magic tricks and we were left with a conservative majority on the court.
Through all the darkness, social media has been lit. Check out the most hilarious Kavanaugh memes below.